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US services and composite PMI data revised lower- EUR/USD lifts on the news

The final reading of US December services and composite PMI data has just been released and both have been revised quite a bit lower. The service sector PMI was expected unchanged at 58.5. It has been revised to 56.8. The composite PMI was revised to 55.4 from 56.6. The immediate reaction saw the dollar turn lower on the news. Prior to all this the EUR/USD had fallen back to around 1.0355 following the Trump denial of the Washington Post article. Before that the EUR/USD had reached a high earlier at 1.0437. The immediate reaction to the data has seen the EUR/USD lift from just below 1.0370, to around 1.0387
 

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